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One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine's daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary...
4) Peter Pan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Peter Pan takes the Darling children on the adventure of a lifetime, introducing them to the joys and dangers of Neverland
5) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from human to bat form, and discovers puncture wounds on his own neck that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns home upon his escape from Dracula's grim fortress, but a friend's strange malady involving...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their part in a story whose title itself reflects the deep irony that shaped Dickens's searching reappraisal of the Victorian middle class
7) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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An orphan, Oliver receives his education at the hands of Cockney thieves, but a stroke of luck changes his life
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Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared on the second edition, published in France...
13) Fossil fever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Jeff must learn patience when he accompanies his uncle on an expedition to hunt for dinosaur fossils in the Sahara Desert. Based on the real discovery of Afrovenator by Paul Sereno in 1993
14) The Wizard of Oz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas
16) The time machine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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A scientist invents a machine that transports him far into the future where he discovers a changed world inhabited by two unusual races, the Eloi and the Morlocks
17) Heidi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
18) A horn for Louis
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong had to work to help his mother pay the rent, but one day when the junk wagon he worked on passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window, young Louis couldn't resist, in a story about how Louis Armstrong got his first horn
19) Unicorns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes the differences and similarities between unicorns from European, Chinese, and Arabian and Persian tales, and how ordinary creatures may have been mistaken for unicorns
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